Wall tablet at St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe commemorating Lee Boo d. 1784
Location
St Mary's Church, Rotherhithe, London, England
Transcript
'IN THE ADJACENT CHURCHYARD LIES THE BODY OF / PRINCE LEE BOO / SON OF ABBA THULLE, RUPACK OF KING OF THE ISLAND / COOROORAA, ONE OF THE PELEW OR PALOS ISLANDS; / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE HOUSE OF / CAPTAIN HENRY WILSON IN PARADISE ROW IN THIS PARISH / ON THE 27 DAY OF DECEMBER 1784 AGED 20 YEARS / THIS TABLET IS ERECTED / BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA IN COUNCIL / TO KEEP ALIVE THE MEMORY OF THE HUMANE TREATMENT, SHEWN BY THE NATIVES TO THE CREW OF THE HONOURABLE / EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SHIP 'ANTELOPE' WHICH WAS WRECKED / OFF THE ISLAND OF COOROORAA ON THE 9TH OF AUGUST 1783 / "THE BARBAROUS PEOPLE SHOWED US NO LITTLE KINDNESS" ACTS XXVIII, 2 / 1892'
Details
Description: Husk swags below the inscription. Type: Wall tablet Position: North wall of interior Materials: Marble Vessel: HEIC Antelope
People
Lee Boo, Lee Boo Age: 20 Date of Death: 27/12/1784 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Honourable East India Company
Chest tomb at Llandaff Cathedral commemorating Robert Snowdon Osborn d. 1916 in the loss of the ‘Reindeer’
Location
Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales
Transcript
'In / loving memory / of/ Robert Snowdon Osbon / Master Mariner / who lost his life through / the / foundering of the S.S. Reindeer / on the 19th November 1916 / Aged 64 years / Pax Domini Sit Semper Vobiscum/ And of his daughter / Blanche / beloved wife of / Ivor J Thomas / Died September 23rd 1954 / Requiescant in Pace / Also in loved memory of / Ivor John Thomas / beloved husband of / Blanche Thomas / who died January 18th 1959 / Aged 69 years / May they have found peace and / happiness together.'
Details
Description: A design of a sinking ship on the side of the tomb, and an anchor at the foot. Type: Chest tomb Position: Churchyard Vessel: SS 'Reindeer'
People
Osborn, Robert Snowdon Age: 64 Date of Death: 19/11/1916 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master mariner Organisation:
Headstone at Church of St John the Evangelist, Ryhall, Rutland commemorating John Cornelius Morley d. 1866 in the loss of the SS ‘London’
Location
Church of St John the Evangelist, Ryhall, Rutland, England
Transcript
'Sacred to the memory of John Morley who died 24 October 1865 aged 76 years. The grass withereth the flower fadeth yet the word of the Lord endureth for ever. Also in affectionate remembrance of John Cornelius son of the above aged 54 years who lost his life with 219 others in the steam ship London on her passage to Australia January 11 1866. Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known'
Details
Type: Headstone Position: South east side of church near path Vessel: SS London
People
Morley, John Cornelius Age: 54 Date of Death: 11/1/1866 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: unknown Organisation:
Extra
Notes: SS 'London' foundered in bad weather in the Bay of Biscay. Recorder: Judith Mitchell
Memorial at Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Charles Philip Bain d. 1881
Location
Toxteth Park Cemetery, Toxteth, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'In loving memory of Cecilla Phillips, who departed this life 1st February 1882, aged 66 years. Also of CHARLES PHILLIP BAIN, grandson of the above, lost at sea in the ship 'LORD STRATHNAIRN' January 1881, aged 26 years'
Details
Type: Headstone Vessel: Lord Strathnairn
People
Bain, Charles Phillip Age: 26 Date of Death: 1/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Wall memorial in St Mary’s Church, Bridport, Dorset, commemorating Henry Roberts d. 1802
Location
St Mary's Church, Bridport, Dorset, England
Transcript
'SACRED TO THE MEMORY / OF CHARLOTTE CARPENTER / ONLY CHILD OF THE LATE REVEREND ROBERTS / RECTOR OF KENSWORTH IN THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD / AND A RELICT OF THOMAS / SON OF THE LATE REVEREND WILLIAM CARPENTER / OF CHISELBORNE IN THIS COUNTY. SHE DIED ON THE 6TH OF FEBY 1818 AND LIES BURIED / IN THE CHURCHYARD NOT FAR FROM THIS PLACE. / ALSO OF HENRY ROBERTS / ELDEST SON OF THE SAID THOMAS AND CHARLOTTE CARPENTER / AGED ABOUT 14 YEARS / A MIDSHIPMAN ON BOARD HMS SCOUT SLOOP OF WAR / WHICH FOUNDERED AT SEA IN NOVEMBER 1801 ON THE BANKS / OF NEWFOUNDLAND ON HER VOYAGE TO HALIFAX IN NOVA SCOTIA / WHEN ALL HANDS PERISHED. / ALSO OF WILLIAM / THE SECOND SON WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON 17TH NOVEMBER 1797 AGED 8 YEARS / AND OF THREE OTHERS SONS / EDWARD THOMAS GEORGE AND SAMUEL /WHO DIED IN INFANCY. / THE REMAINS OF THE AFORESAID THOMAS CARPENTER / ARE INTERRED IN HIS FAMILY VAULT AT CHISELBORNE. / This tablet is erected in grateful recollection / of the affectionate solicitude for her children / which activated a fond Mother and humble Christian / to the last hours of her existence / by her youngest and only surviving Son / now a field officer in the Madras army and serving in the East Indies. / Bridport December 1851'
Details
Description: Stele, family crest ( demi lion rampant) above inscription. Type: Wall tablet Position: North wall Materials: Marble Vessel: HMS Scout
People
Roberts, Henry Age: Date of Death: 12/1802 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Midshipman RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: HMS 'Scout'. Foundered on Newfoundland Banks 1802 not 1801.
Wall tablet at St Cadoc’s Church, Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan commemorating Herbert David Matthews d. 1890 in the loss of the SS ‘Highgate’
Location
St Cadoc's Church, Cadoxton, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Transcript
'In / loving / memory of Herbert David / only and beloved son of / Kate & Matthew Matthews / who lost his life at sea / through collision of the / S.S. Highgate / on February 19th 1890 / Aged 21 years / Watch therefore for he knew / not what hour your Lord doth come.'
Details
Description: Oval wall tablet depicting a capsized ship. Type: Wall tablet Position: Nave Artists: L. Hooper Vessel: SS Highgate
People
Matthews, Herbert David Age: 21 Date of Death: 19/2/1890 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Organisation:
Extra
Notes: From a transcript made by Mr Brian C Luxton in 1973 and published by Glamorgan Family History Society in 1983
Memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery, London commemorating James Akhurst and his family d. 1881 in the wreck of the SS ‘Clan Macduff’
Location
Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England
Transcript
'IN/LOVING MEMORY OF / JAMES AKHURST / OF LEWISHAM / AND OF HIS TWO DAUGHTERS / ADA MARY AND ALICE MAUD / ALL OF WHOM PERISHED IN THE WRECK / OF SS CLAN MACDUFF / ON OR ABOUT OCTOBER 20 1881 / THE BODIES OF ADA AND ALICE WERE RECOVERED / AND ARE HERE INTERRED.'
Details
Description: Triangular topped headstone, with curbs and evidence of chains. Type: Gravestone Position: North of North Avenue Materials: Limestone Vessel: SS Clan MacDuff
People
Akhurst, James Age: Date of Death: 20/10/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Akhurst, Ada Mary Age: Date of Death: 20/10/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Akhurst, Alice Maud Age: Date of Death: 20/10/1881 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
Memorial in the Liverpool Necropolis, commemorating Richard Lethbridge d. 1838 in the loss of the ship ‘Nottingham
Location
Liverpool Necropolis, Liverpool, England
Transcript
'Richard Lethbridge age 36 master of the ship Nottingham which vessel foundered at sea on her homeward voyage 1838 and all on board perished'
Details
Vessel: Nottingham
People
Lethbridge, Richard Age: 36 Date of Death: 1838 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Master Organisation:
Extra
Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d.1886, vol 8, p. 623. Liverpool Necropolis closed in 1898 and a public garden was later laid out on the site. Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand
Memorial wall monument in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London commemorating Edward Wortley Montagu d.1777
Location
Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England
Transcript
'EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGU / Qui ab Indis Orientalibus in Britanniam rediturus / Naufragus peruiit MDCCLXXVII, annum agens XXVII / In memoriam Amicitiae / Apud Scholam Regiam vicinam inchoatiae; / Oxonii contenter productae; / Magna parte Orbis interjecta non diminutae: / Morte vix abruptae; / coelis, si videatur Deo, renovandae / Monumentum hoc werigebat, / JED / Librorum praedicti Haeres, / et Residui Cohaeres Legatus'
[Translation] ‘This monument was erected to Edward Wortley Montagu, who was shipwrecked while returning to Britain from the East Indies in 1777 in his 27th year, by John English Dolmen, heir to the aforementioned Edward’s library, and his joint residuary legatee, in memory of a friendship which began at the neighbouring royal school [Westminster School], continued without interruption at Oxford, was not diminished though half the world lay between, was hardly broken even by death, and which, if it pleases god, shall be renewed in Heaven.'
Details
Description: Sarcophagus in relief above inscription tablet with a mourning female figure on the front and an urn on top. Cherubs head below inscription tablet. Type: Wall monument Position: West walk cloisters Materials: Coade stone
People
Montagu, Edward Wortley Age: 26 Date of Death: 1777 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Unknown
Extra
Bibliography: Alison Kelly 'Mrs Coade's stone' (Upton-upon-Severn, 1990).
Memorial at St Michael’s Church, Inveresk commemorating Captain William Buller Fullerton Elphinstone RN d. 1893, Captain Charles Elphinstone d. 1807 in the loss of HMS ‘Blenheim’ and George James Elphinstone RN d. 1879
Location
St Michael's Church, Inveresk, East Lothian, Scotland
Transcript
[Panel one] 'THE / MASTER OF ELPHINSTONE / DIED 9TH NOVR 1890 / WILLIAM BULLER FULLERTON / 15TH LORD ELPHINSTONE / BORN 18TH NOVEMBER 1828 / DIED 18 JANUARY 1893 / THE HON CONSTANCE LOTHIAN ELPHINSTONE / BORN 5TH OCTOBER 1873 / DIED 18TH MARCH 1895' [Central panel] 'TO THE MEMORY OF / THE HON WILLIAM FULLERTON ELPHINSTONE / SECOND SON OF CHARLES TENTH LORD ELPHINSTONE / BORN SEPTEMBER 1740 DIED MAY 1834 / ALSO TO / ELIZABETH HIS WIFE / DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM FULLERTON OF CARSTAIRS / AND NIECE OF JOHN FULLERTON OF CARBERRY / BORN JANUARY 1758 DIED MAY 1849 / TO CLEMENTINA / WIFE OF SIR PULTENEY MALCOLM G.C.B. / DIED NOVEMBER 1830 / TO JOHN FULLERTON DIED 12TH MARCH 1854 / TO CHARLES / CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY / LOST IN H.M. SHIP BLENHEIM FEBRUARY 1807 / TO ELIZABETH DIED OCTOBER 1802 / TO MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM KEITH / DIED IN INDIA APRIL 1842 / TO ANNA DIED 29TH AUGUST 1850 / TO DIANA MARIA / ONLY CHILD OF CHARLES CLAVERING ESQ. / WIFE OF LIEU-COL J. / D. ELPHINSTONE / BORN 8TH JUNE 1801 DIED 24TH DECEMBER 1821 / INTERRED IN THIS VAULT / ANNA MARIA / WIFE OF LIEUT-COL JAMES DRUMMOND BULLER ELPHINSTONE / DAUGHTER OF VICE ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD BULLER BART / BORN 3D NOVEMBER 1799 DIED AT CARBERRY 26TH FEBRUARY 1845 / LIEUT-COL JAMES FULLERTON ELPHINSTONE / 4TH SON OF THE HONBLE W.F. ELPHINSTONE / BORN 4TH MAY 1788 / DIED AT CARBERRY 8TH MARCH 1857' [Panel 3] 'THE HON J.F. ELPHINSTONE / BORN APRIL 1837 / CAPT. AND LIEUT COL / SCOTS FUSILIER GUARDS / DIED AND BURIED AT CUATHALOUGHA CO. TIPPERARY / NOVR 1874 / THE HON G.J. ELPHINSTONE / ROYAL NAVY / BORN 1841 / DIED AND BURIED ON / THE ISLAND OF LISMORE / 1879 / THE HON. GERTRUDE ELPHINSTONE / WIFE OF JAMES HOPE / OF BELMONT / BORN 17TH FEB 1826 / DIED 29TH MARCH 1894 / THE HON. ELIZABETH MARY ELPHINSTONE / WIDOW OF THE VERY REVD JAMES MONTGOMERY / DEAN OF EDINBURGH / BORN 17TH NOVR 1834 / DIED 24TH SEPT 1902 / THE HON. EDWARD BULLER ELPHINSTONE / BORN 1832 DIED 1915 / THE HON ANNA MARIA ELPHINSTONE / WIDOW OF HENRY MONTGOMERY / BORN 1830 DIED 1913 / THE HON CLEMENTINA ELPHINSTONE / WIDOW OF COLONEL DOUGLAS JONES / BORN 1827 DIED 1916'
Details
Description: Arms centre top, wreaths above side panels Type: Memorial Position: North west corner of churchyard Materials: Grey sandstone Vessel: HMS Blenheim
People
Elphinstone, William Buller Fullerton Age: Date of Death: 18/1/1893 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Elphinstone, Charles Age: Date of Death: 2/1807 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy Elphinstone, George James Age: Date of Death: 1879 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: DOSSIER. Recorder: John Steele 1988
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters
